So quick thing. Our community has a rule of 'No bigotry'. Honestly? I think that if you voted for Trump you basically violated that rule. So lemme be clear.
If you voted for Trump, voted for Third Party, or didn't vote at all and you say as much on this community, I will permanently ban you. Yes, I am including Third Party in that. Jill Stein is an open asset of the Russians. More over, a Third Party candidate was never going to win. Your position of a protest vote did nothing other than fuck over everyone else in the country. You are just as bad as the people who did not vote and worse than the people who voted for Trump. At least they were honest about what they were doing. You deluded yourself into believing that a completely different election was happening and actively enabled fascism.
You do not get to call yourself a Star Trek fan when your actions have shown that you go against absolutely everything that it stands for and represents.
Sure we will. It looks like that our government (Germany) is falling apart in these very minutes. So I guess we will get our chance to fuck things up very soon as well.
If not I think you need to step back and think about the implications of what you just wrote. You are straight up telling people who to vote for. That is not exactly democratic nor is it even in line with a lot of Star Trek. Also we are talking about a fictional series so you could basiclly claim anything is not in line with Star Trek.
If this is something you are serious about I can not longer be a part of this community. I think there are a few much smaller communities that I might move to.
If this is something you are serious about I can not longer be a part of this community.
Oh no, whatever will we do?
I'm not telling people who to vote for. I'm saying that there are consequences if you behaved in such a way that encouraged the voting of a fascistic Nazi that has openly admitted he wants to kill people in my community and attack minorities. I do not tolerate this and I am openly saying that you are not a Star Trek fan. You don't understand the material, if you did you wouldn't have tried to claim that liking a Nazi is approved under Star Trek if you look hard enough. It isn't. They literally invent characters that go around punching fascists that become fan favorites like Kira or Shaxx.
You are not wanted or welcome here. You do not believe in the ideals of Star Trek and have shirked the morals of every single Trek actor who has come out screaming that Trump is a fascist and against everything Trek stands for.
I understand both of you. It's undemocratic to ban people for their political views, no matter where on the spectrum they land.
I'd love to make the point that this only enables them to victimize themselves and therefore can't be the answer.
I'd love to make the point that this only pushes them further towards radicalization and therefore can't be the answer.
I'd love to make the point that the divide can only be bridged by political discourse on eye-level.
But people are so emotionalized that it is near impossible now.
I don't know how to push back against this.
I don't know what's the right thing to do.
I hope it's not banning people based on who they voted.